As a child, I often walked on eggshells. Never knowing what the mood would be when I arrived home. To help gain a sense of control over my environment, I learned to be quiet, fly below the radar and be as perfect as I could in every single way. I did my best at aContinue reading “Overcoming Perfectionism”
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Perfection’s Anger
“Little girls are sugar, spice and everything nice.” How destructive this belief becomes to girls and then later to women. I believe it also affects men. This type of thinking is our undoing for it takes away a child’s sense of ability to feel anger. For years I suppressed my anger, as many women do.Continue reading “Perfection’s Anger”
How Perfectionism Blocks Happiness
To live is to experience life anew, to change, to clean, to release that which no longer serves us. It was an inocuous mistake. One for which I would have tortured myself for days if I had let it. In being given a spot to drop them off, the young couple told me a barContinue reading “How Perfectionism Blocks Happiness”
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